Erschienen in:
25.11.2019 | Concise Research Report
Liberation Medicine: a Community Partnership and Health Advocacy Curriculum for Internal Medicine Residents
verfasst von:
Erin Goss, MD, Shwetha Iyer, MD, Julia Arnsten, MD, MPH, Linda Wang, MD, Clyde Lanford Smith, MD, MPH, DTM&H
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 10/2020
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Excerpt
Physicians and professional organizations endorse the value of community and legislative health advocacy,
1 but community health advocacy training is often neglected in medical training. To address this, in 2000, we implemented a Liberation Medicine (LM) curriculum for Montefiore’s Primary Care/Social Medicine (PC/SM) residents. Defined as
the conscious,
conscientious use of healthcare to promote social justice and human dignity,
2 LM provides a framework to support community efforts to address social arrangements that disproportionately impact health and well-being among poor and marginalized persons. We describe the evolution of our LM curriculum from 2000 to 2017 and present preliminary evaluation results from 2016 to 2017. …